“Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby when you throw him in the air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him.”
– Abhishek Thakore
One-year-old babies are my new favorite thing!
Especially because I have the most darling one year old niece, ever!
It reminds me that when you’re young and learning the world, you trust the adults around you implicitly! Otherwise there would be no way you could survive.
Then, as you get older, trusting others becomes more discretionary. You have to decide whom you trust, and whom you don’t.
Trusting others becomes less instinctive, and more of a process. It’s based on the conditions you decide are necessary for trusting and the observations you make about people and whether or not they fulfill your conditions.
And, unlike the one-year-old baby, trust is a quality you must cultivate and nurture, in yourself and with others.
In the workplace, research shows that high trust organizations get more done, more quickly, than low trust workplaces. I’ve experienced the latter first hand and saw how utterly impossible it was to move the ball forward. Maybe you have too. So let’s talk about it.
In this week’s post on TheMuse.com, we’ll look at how to drive the trust factor up and to the right.
Go here to read about how trust can truly transform your workplace experience.
When you explore the gift of trust, you’re building sound Career Strategies.
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